University
of Oxford offers MBA Skoll Scholarship at Saïd Business School in
the field of Entrepreneurship in UK2013. Full scholarship details:

School:University
of Oxford, Saïd
Business School /UK; Level:MBA

Field(s):
Entrepreneurship;

Deadline:11
January 2013

Funded
by:University of Oxford

Beneficiaries:Scholarship
Open for International Students

Benefits:

The
Skoll Scholarship covers full costs of Said Business School tuition
and college fees. The Scholarship also covers partial living
expenses based on need, up to an additional £8,000.

Description

The
Skoll Scholarship is a competitive scholarship for incoming MBA
students who pursue entrepreneurial solutions for urgent social and
environmental challenges.

The
Scholarship provides funding and exclusive opportunities to meet
with world-renowned entrepreneurs, thought-leaders and investors.

Once
selected, these students are known as Skoll Skollars.

The
Skoll scholarship provides tutition for social entrepreneurs who
have set up or have been working in social enterprises, and who wish
to improve their knowledge of market-oriented practices so they can
be more effective in their subsequent social change pursuits.

Eligibility

To
be considered, you need to meet the following criteria:

Candidates
must have started or worked in a social venture for 12 months or
longer.

Candidates
must demonstrate evidence of personal qualities strongly resonating
with social entrepreneurship leadership, and illustrate how these
have influenced their career path thus far.

These
qualities include:

Single-mindedness
and persistence in pursuit of a social benefit goal, including a
willingness to face failure and start again

A
bias towards action rather than reflection

A
tendency to explore the environment for opportunities and resources

A
willingness to take personal, and sometimes financial, risks

A
habit of developing a network and subtly or unsubtly exploiting its
members.

Candidates
must demonstrate how a business education can contribute to the
wider development of the community they work with in the social
entrepreneurship movement.

They
will need to illustrate why a business degree at this stage of their
career trajectory can help them amplify their impact.

Candidates
must demonstrate some evidence of their need for the scholarship.

This
may be exhibited, for example, in previous work experiences or
personal backgrounds which make self-funding the MBA a significant
financial burden.